From 1930 to 2022, the World Cup has a history of almost 100 years, during which a total of 55 hat-tricks were born. However, although there are many hat-tricks, there is still a difference in color and quality. For example, in terms of the number of goals, three goals is only the norm, and like Eusebio Panther, one person scored 4 goals, which is considered a big hat-trick. However, the king of this should be Russia's Salenko in the '94 World Cup, who scored five goals alone against Cameroon, which was also the biggest hat-trick of the World Cup so far.
Of course, the number of goals is only one aspect, and there is also a difference in the quality of the hat-trick. For example, some hat-tricks not only occur in important stages such as knockout rounds, but also score wonderful goals. The clearest example is Mbappe in the World Cup final in Qatar. Although two of the three goals were penalties, Mbappe's second goal, volley, was a rare masterpiece. And, don't forget that this is the World Cup final.
In fact, everyone has the most wonderful hat-trick in their minds, for example, Barty will have many supporters, first of all, Barty is the only player in history who has scored a hat-trick in two consecutive World Cups, and Barty's hat-trick, there are iconic powerful volleys, and there are also four or two thousand pounds of skillful shooting, in short, his hat-trick is definitely worthy of the word wonderful. For example, Ronaldo's hat-trick is also treasured in the hearts of many fans, especially the final free kick, which made countless Portuguese fans stay up at night.
It is too difficult to choose the best one from the 55 hat-tricks, because everyone's aesthetic and emotional tendencies are different, so it is difficult to form a uniform standard.
However, among the 55 hat-tricks, the most mediocre one should be without suspense. Even though I haven't seen a lot of hat-tricks in the black and white period, I'm sure there is no hat-trick that is of lower quality than the one we're going to talk about today.
Let's start with Kylian Mbappe's final hat-trick. This hat-trick takes into account two elements, one is that the nature of the game reaches its peak, after all, it is the World Cup final; One was a wonderful goal, and I didn't mean two penalties, but that amazing volley. If you start from the opposite point of view, then the most banal hat-trick, firstly, the nature of the game is not good enough, that is, the group stage, and secondly, the goal is not wonderful, or rather, rather unexciting.
This hat-trick also included two penalties. But the problem is, another goal, not even a shot. As you must have guessed, this hat-trick came from the most watery World Cup golden boot in history, Harry Kane.
In the 2018 World Cup, England reached the last four, and Harry Kane copied the achievements of his predecessor Lineker to become the top scorer in the World Cup. However, none of the six goals he scored were masterpieces. Especially in the group stage against Panama, Harry Kane simply took some kind of luck to the extreme.
The score was 6:1 and three English players scored: Stones, Jesse Lingard and Harry Kane. Among them, Stones' two headers are powerful and visually powerful. Jesse Lingard's long-range shot in front of the penalty area is even more pleasing to the eye. Only Harry Kane's three goals were simply made of water.
Not to mention the two penalties, the last one, a powerful long-range shot from outside the Cheek penalty area, the ball touched Harry Kane's heel halfway through, changed direction, the goalkeeper could not react, and was attacked the goal. This ball, from beginning to end, has little to do with Harry Kane, after all, Cheek's first thought is to shoot, not pass. And Harry Kane is the final terminator, which is really ridiculous. Moreover, this ball is actually suspected of being offside.
Three goals, two penalties can only be said to be decent, not outstanding; And the last ball, not a volley, not a cushion shot, not a long shot, not a push, not a poke, not a clever shot, in short, nothing. It's just that he did get the ball in.
You don't have to look through the historical data to be sure that among the other 54 World Cup hat-tricks, there will be no uglier. To be honest, if all three goals were penalties, it wouldn't be so ugly.
Of course, in the end, it is necessary to wash Harry Kane. On the football field, the so-called wonderful goals only satisfy the visual feelings of fans, but the value is the same as ugly goals. For strikers, scoring is the last word, Maradona's goal of the century, one point, Harry Kane's unspeakable goal, also a point. In fact, England really has to be glad that this era can have Harry Kane.